On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, J3B wrote:

: > did anyone contact the fellow in .fi who did the one for RiscOS to see
: > if he felt like sharing his code or doing one for unix?

: Please keep a low profile on MP3 decoders in this mailinglist.
: 
: The latest C'T [german & dutch computer magazine]
: tells horror-stories about a law-firm trying to collect
: money of up to US $ 25 per copy [even for PD-software]
: stating that patents and/or other license agreements
: apply and that the sample code or its deratives
: contain many patented routines, that cannot be distributed
: freely.

Since the one for RiscOS was done from scratch (the sample code uses
floating point; his uses fixed-point); I doubt it would apply.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)